WTYTIAAN Chapter 13
by VolareWatching Yan Yunqing and Lillian bickering, the mermaid, who had been in low spirits since waking up, with a hint of sorrow on her face, finally chuckled. Lillian pinched Yan Yunqing’s cheeks and pulled them outwards, “You childish ghost, look, the little mermaid is laughing at you!”
Yan Yunqing expressed his dissatisfaction and flicked Lillian away, “You’re the childish one, always calling yourself a baby, Lillian!”
The war between the two childish ghosts ended with Yan Yunqing strategically backing down.
The mermaid finally found a chance to speak, and she introduced herself, “My name is Cornelia Freud, you can call me Cornelia.”
“I’m Lillian, as you can see, a little elf.” Lillian winked at Cornelia, “Although I should have been born earlier than you, according to our elven lifespan, I am indeed a baby who hasn’t been born for long.”
“Hello, Lillian.” Cornelia’s emerald green eyes curved into a smile, and then she said to Yan Yunqing, “Hello, A-Yan? Your name sounds a bit strange, but it sounds nice, does it have a special meaning?”
Yan Yunqing shrugged, “Then I’ll thank your compliments on behalf of my parents?”
“You probably wouldn’t understand the special meaning, it was originally taken from ‘Calm Seas and Clear Rivers’, but ‘River Clear’ is a bit too common, and it just so happened that the weather was clear and cloudless on the day I was born, so I was named Yunqing.”
Lillian and Cornelia listened, understanding only a little, in a daze.
Yan Yunqing was helpless: After all, there is a distance of an entire world, these allusions are quite difficult to explain.
Speaking of which, Yan Yunqing felt that Lillian wasn’t completely clueless when he occasionally used idioms?
Could it be that because this world was originally created by Blue Star people, some cultures can be understood subtly without special explanations?
Or does his game system automatically convert his words into words that the creatures here can understand?
A gust of cool wind blew, lifting Cornelia’s long hair and skirt, and also blew away some of the dark clouds overhead, revealing the moon that was tightly covered underneath. The silvery-white brilliance Sprinklefell down, gently draping them in a layer of silvery-white gauze.
Yan Yunqing looked up at the bright and clear moon, then looked at the two dirty faces illuminated by the moonlight, and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Let’s go, find a place to rest, and then continue to find a way to leave this city.”
*
Having found a sparsely populated place, the three of them were finally able to sit down and rest for a while.
Yan Yunqing took out the food he had swiped from the Auction House. He had to say that this Auction House was really generous. Lillian had gnawed on a lot of the original fruit platter in the VIP box, and then they sent a lot of exquisite food in.
After dividing up the remaining food, Yan Yunqing took out a few stamina pills and munched them down. The physical fatigue swept away, but the spirit was inevitably a little tired.
Since waking up in the cage and figuring out what situation he was in, Yan Yunqing’s mind had been running at high speed, his spirit tense so as to deal with situations that might get worse at any time.
Seeing that he would be able to be completely safe soon, Yan Yunqing’s spirit relaxed, and he immediately felt an uncontrollable wave of sleepiness surge up.
He really missed that 1.8-meter double Simmons bed in his room!
His life and virginity were temporarily preserved, and Yan Yunqing finally had time to miss home, to think of that warm bed, the unhealthy and fattening gutter oil takeout, the upcoming leisurely university life…
Yan Yunqing’s eyes turned red a little.
He hadn’t dared to think about it before, for fear that if he thought too much, he would give up and let fate beat him up in the face of such a hellish start.
Alas… transmigrating isn’t that good either.
Yan Yunqing sighed, holding his face in his hands, and muttered to himself, “I forgot to put food out for the dog before going to sleep, I don’t know if Humph can feed himself…”
Forget it, can you expect a stupid dog to open the cabinet door by itself, and then take out and open the heavy dog food bag?
Hopefully, this stupid dog will be a little smarter, and if it’s really too hungry, it’ll break out and go wander.
Anyway, its owner looks like he’s about to go wander soon.
“Um… so are we going out of the city now?” Cornelia took the lead in breaking the silence, “We have to bypass those guards, right?”
Yan Yunqing: “Yes, after all, we escaped, it may be too late to go out tomorrow morning.”
“Um… I know a place, it might allow us to avoid the guards’ sight and leave the city.” Cornelia hesitated, “But…”
……
Yan Yunqing: “A dog hole?!”
Cornelia nodded and led the way, “Before I was caught, I actually lived around the Capital City for a while. Because I didn’t have money to enter the city, I asked the children in the surrounding villages.”
“One of the children secretly told me that there is a dog hole here… ah, it’s not really a dog hole, maybe it was just an ordinary small hole at first, and then the surrounding villagers secretly dug it a little bigger. Those who need to enter the city but don’t have enough copper coins to pay the entrance fee, secretly sneak in from here.”
“But I only heard this from that child, I know the general direction is here, but I haven’t gone through it.” Cornelia blushed a little embarrassedly, like a rosy apple, “I was tricked soon after… I was caught, and I didn’t have the chance to come and find it.”
“So, why did you want to enter the city?” Yan Yunqing asked casually, “The reason you were caught by the Auction House people wouldn’t be because of entering the city, right?”
Cornelia was even more embarrassed, “That… actually I wanted to find my sister…”
Mentioning her sister, Cornelia’s expression dimmed a little, “Before… my sister suddenly disappeared. I heard the clansmen say that they saw my sister sending a drowning person ashore, but I waited on the rocks by the shore for several days and didn’t see my sister come back. I was a little worried, so I thought about going ashore to find her.”
Such a familiar development.
Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but interject, “The person your sister saved wouldn’t be some prince, right? And then the prince said he wanted to marry your sister as his wife, and your sister was moved by the prince, so she went with him?”
Cornelia looked at Yan Yunqing strangely, “No… of course not, my sister is the next Sea Clan’s Queen, how could she randomly abandon her clansmen, go ashore and marry a prince?”
Ah, it seems that what the fairy tales say isn’t necessarily true.
Yan Yunqing thought.
“But you might be right about one thing.” Cornelia said, “The drowning person my sister saved seems to really be a prince.”
Yan Yunqing:?
So what the fairy tales say isn’t necessarily false either.
“I am a mixed-blood mermaid, after going ashore I turned into the appearance of a human. I pretended to be a traveler who had gotten separated from my friends and asked at the seaside village. They said that no outsiders had come to the village recently, but a foreign noble lord nearby accidentally fell into the water, and a beautiful mermaid saved him. I know that must be my sister.”
“The villagers didn’t know what happened after that, so I asked around and heard that the noble lord was very likely to be a prince of Bato Vita.”
Cornelia’s expression was lonely, “I asked all the way here to the Capital City, I heard that the princes all live in here, so I wanted to come in and ask about my sister’s whereabouts. But I came out in a hurry, I didn’t bring anything valuable, I couldn’t enter the city. Later, I got anxious, and I might have accidentally revealed that I was a mermaid, so I was caught.”
The more Yan Yunqing listened, the more he felt that Cornelia’s sister was probably not doing well.
Just based on the way the Fifth Prince of Bato Vita looked, whom he had met today, it was hard to say what kind of character his brothers were.
“Well, actually you don’t need to worry too much.” Lillian said bluntly, “Listening to what you said, your sister must be a pureblood mermaid, and she’s already been designated as the next Queen, her strength must be stronger than you, a mixed-blood. There’s no use in you worrying. If your sister is really caught by bad guys, you going there would just add another mermaid landscape to the other party’s display case.”
Yan Yunqing almost choked on Lillian’s consolation.
I know your starting point is good, but don’t start yet, you’re about to kill people.
Cornelia actually nodded in agreement, “When I was caught, I understood. My strength is still too weak. If my sister is really in danger, it’s better to let the more powerful elders in the clan come.”
“So you didn’t notify the people in the clan from the beginning, and just ran ashore like this… just one fish?” Yan Yunqing felt that Cornelia was too carefree, “Your two sisters disappeared, didn’t your clansmen have any reaction?”
Cornelia was at a loss, “I don’t know… maybe?”
She whispered, “My sister’s strength is very strong, she occasionally goes out for long trips to hunt or play, everyone in the clan knows her habits, as for me…”
Cornelia didn’t continue speaking, and Yan Yunqing immediately thought of what Lillian had said before about mixed-breeds being unwelcome in any group. It seemed that even if Cornelia disappeared, no one would care.
After walking quietly for a while, Cornelia stopped, observed her surroundings for a long time, and then hesitantly said, “It seems to be here?”
She bent down and used her hands to pull apart the bushes, looking for the hole that the nearby villagers had dug together. Seeing this, Yan Yunqing quickly picked up a wooden stick and joined her in the search.
The villagers had been able to enter and exit the Capital City through this hole for so long without being discovered even once, showing how hidden the hole was. After searching for a long time, Yan Yunqing and his party hadn’t found anything.
“I say, is that dog hole really here?” Lillian gasped for breath, “You weren’t tricked by that kid, were you?”
“Eh? Wouldn’t be?” Cornelia was not very confident, “But I did give him a reward…”
“Reward?” x2
“Yeah, I, I…” Cornelia lowered her head, “That was the last of the money I had on me, I gave it all to that kid.”
Yan Yunqing and Lillian looked at each other.
“You weren’t tricked, were you?” Yan Yunqing hesitated, “Maybe that kid didn’t even know where the hole was?”
Lillian was not polite, “I think that dog hole doesn’t exist at all, you were completely tricked.”
Cornelia was stunned, her emerald green eyes flickered, gradually dimming, “How could it be…”
“Humans are a group of cunning, deep-minded fellows.” Lillian snorted, “A naive mermaid like you wouldn’t even realize it if you were eaten clean by humans!”
The disgust for humans in her words couldn’t be hidden.
Cornelia lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking. Yan Yunqing saw her hands clasped tightly together, and suspected that she would burst into tears in the next second.
“Uh… that…” Yan Yunqing smoothed things over, “Don’t say that, there are good people among humans too, it’s just that you haven’t met them.”
“Like the one we met when we just escaped, if he wasn’t a good person, how could he have directly let us go after discovering that we were escaped goods?”
Lillian strongly disagreed with Yan Yunqing’s point of view, “Maybe he discovered me, and thought he couldn’t beat me, so he simply let us go? — After all, I’m an elf, a natural mage!”
Yan Yunqing: “… Oh? Then why didn’t the great Lillian show her power, directly bomb the entire Auction House with magic, and let us leave there?”
Lillian choked for a moment, and muttered in a low voice, “Maybe that’s what that person thought?”
A moment of silence.
“In short–” Yan Yunqing keenly realized that the city was starting to become chaotic, and there were vague flickering lights in the distance, “The Auction House’s matter is probably a big deal now. Since we can’t get out for the time being, let’s find a safe place first.”
The night was already deep.